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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: rohitseth@google.com
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of	physical pages backing it
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:58:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606121958.41127.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150133795.9576.19.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com>

> It is just the price of those walks that makes smaps not an attractive
> solution for monitoring purposes.

It just shouldn't be used for that. It's a debugging hack and not really 
suitable for monitoring even with optimizations.

For monitoring if the current numa statistics are not good enough
you should probably propose new counters.

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-12 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-10  1:33 Rohit Seth
2006-06-10  2:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-12 17:49   ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-10  7:35 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-11 10:15   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-12 17:36   ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-12 17:58     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-06-12 19:42       ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13  3:51         ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-13  4:27           ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-13 16:59           ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 17:28             ` Hugh Dickins
2006-06-13 18:09               ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 17:31             ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-11 16:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-12 11:17   ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 12:49     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-12 12:54       ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 16:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-13  5:53 [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of physical_pages_backing it Albert Cahalan
2006-06-13  5:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-13 17:10   ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 17:18     ` Andi Kleen

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